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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Few Clicks to Watch Windows Home Server Videos on Xbox One

If you got yourself a new Windows Home Server and you just got the xBox, did you know you can connect these two together? Yup, Xbox One and your Windows Home Server are compatible devices that can work together. And today I’ll show you connect your Xbox One to your Home Server, and play the video on your Home Server on Xbox One.

That is,the setup is quite easy and it takes only a few minutes. When you’re done, your Xbox One will be able to do these awesome things:

create a photo slide show with pictures that are on your Home Server

play music that is located on your Home Server — even from your iTunes

watch videos that you have saved on your Home Server

Basically your Xbox One one will become a multimedia extension of your Home Server. You can stream music, photos and videos from your Home Server to your Xbox One and you don’t even need any additional software.

So if you think that watching your family vacation videos on the big screen sounds like fun, or rocking out to your favorite iTunes without leaving your couch is something you’d like to do — then follow these easy steps and do what you’re supposed to do with your Home Server — connect! Now let’s get to it!

First, open the Windows Home Server Console and set up Media Library Sharing. Click Settings then Media Sharing. Select the media types (Music, Photos and Videos) you want to share. Click OK.

Next, power on your Xbox one and verify it’s connected to your network. Wireless or Ethernet will work, but for best performance I recommend you plug in the Ethernet cable.

From the main menu, select My Video Apps.Then scroll over and select Video Player.

A list of the computers on your network will be listed. Select your WHS.

Next you’ll be able to browse the media library folders you shared from the server.

Then drill down to the video you want to watch.

Enjoy the show from WHS through the Xbox one. You can use your Xbox controller remote to control playback.

It will be a great visual feast to watch videos on Xbox One. In consideration that you might run into Xbox One formats incompatibility issues while watching videos, the next guide focuses on the best audio and video format for Xbox One so that you can have a hassle-free video enjoyment on Xbox One with WHS.

The Xbox One support multiple video formats like these:

File extensions

Containers

Video profiles

Video bit rate

AVI support

.avi, .divx

AVI

MPEG-4 Part 2 (Simple Profile and Advanced Simple Profile)

5 Mbps with resolutions of 1280 × 720 at 30 fps

H.264 support

.mp4, .m4v, mp4v, .mov, .avi

MPEG-4, QuickTime

Baseline, main and high (up to level 4.1)

10 Mbps with resolutions of 1920 × 1080 at 30 fps

MPEG-4 Part 2 support

.mp4, .m4v, .mp4v, .mov, .avi

MPEG-4, QuickTime

MPEG-4 Part 2 (Simple Profile and Advanced Simple Profile)

5 Mbps with resolutions of 1280 × 720 at 30 fps

WMV (VC-1) support

.wmv

ASF

WMV7 (WMV1), WMV8 (WMV2), WMV9 (WMV3), VC-1 (WVC1 or WMVA) in simple, main and advanced up to level 3

Video bit rate: 15 Mbps with resolutions of 1920 × 1080 at 30 fps

Sometimes, movies and videos are unplayable on Xbox One, partly due to the files saved in the file extension like Tivo, MTS, FLV, VOB, MKV etc are out of Xbox One supported video and audio format list. The answer to this issue is to find the best codec for video playback.

Here the video codec transcoding professor Pavtube Video Converter / Mac Version(read the review) will be your best aid for video to Xbox One conversion. Not only it can convert any unsupported video to Xbox One supported video formats like MP4, AVI, WMV, as well as the audio file format supported by Xbox One like MP3, but also you can save yourself a lot of time with the preset profiles for each version of Xbox One gadgets, making it stand out from the crowd similar software.